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[quote=Anonymous]Best Offer Wins, by Marisa Kashino. Local author (used to write for Washingtonian), first novel. Fun DC-area details. On the surface it's about a couple dealing with the insanely competitive Bethesda real estate market. But the pace and tone are set by the main character, and she's A LOT. (Think Bernadette but maybe funnier and edgier?) I'm only about halfway through, but so far, this part of the NY Times Book Review nails it: "By Page 64, a striving publicist named Margo Miyake has trespassed onto the property of her unlisted-but-soon-to-be-for-sale dream house; stalked one of its owners, Jack Lombardi, at a hot yoga class; and presented herself as a kindly role model for Jack’s adoptive daughter, Penny, who is Chinese American — all in a feral attempt to score the fully renovated 1940s colonial before it hits the market. More than ill-behaved, Margo is unhinged and unapologetic — picture Amy Dunne of “Gone Girl” as a client on “House Hunters.”[/quote]
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